Christians - A Penny For Your Thoughts.
Fo shizzle my Christizzles.
Now, I’ve a friend who, bless him, is American. Bless him once more, is a Christian. Thrice bless him, is a young Earth creationist. Now I know that by the time you reduce his IQ by the required amount for these 3 things, he is probably slightly less intelligent than a Dugong \ Manatee.
But the thing is, he’s not a thicko. He’s a very intelligent man, but he believes completely that the Earth is 6000 odd years old. Now, its always fascinated me how Christians, particularly this sort, don’t wake up in the morning and think – hang on, I believe that the Earth is 6000 years old, but it can be proven; proven absolutely, beyond any scientific doubt, that the Earth simply is not 6000 years old.
We know – not think; know, that the Earth is billions of years old.
I suppose what I’m looking for is a hardcore Christian to explain to me, without just saying ‘it says so in this book’, how you balance these things in your mind. I mean, there’s no point having a belief system that, in your own mind at least, doesn’t hold up to some scrutiny.
How, for instance, can a grown man, a sensible man, a man with a brain and things, wake up in the morning, look at himself in the mirror, and think ‘My belief system is based on a book, in which there is mentioned a snake… that can talk…’ and then just go about their day?
Do Christians ever think – if a big man in the sky with magic powers made the heavens and the Earth 6000 years ago, how has the light from objects in the universe greater than 6000 light years away reached us?
Why do rocks, when carbon dated, always seem to come back as billions of years old?
When God said ‘let there be light’ (and there was light!!1!!11!), isn’t it an amazing coincidence that there just happens to be a massive ball of gas in the sky, that by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium, throws out heat and… yes, light.
What about Norse Gods? Hindu Gods? Egyptian Gods? How can you be happy just putting it down to – I’m right, everybody else is wrong. My God is real, everybody else is deluded.
Why doesn’t God just appear in the sky above Paris, or Rome, or Moscow, or London, and say in a big booming voice – stop arguing, stop killing each other, I am real, here I am, now lets have a bit less of it. All we get is David Blaine ****ting in a Perspex box. Now I can appreciate the beauty of that as much as the next man, but its not divine is it?
Why, if God sees everything, does he allow widespread sexual abuse of children by Priests, Vicars etc? Are these not men of God? I know he gave us free will, and that means that some people will exercise this free will to rape children, but surely he could act in some way?
Why when he made all the animals on Earth, did he make 11,880 (known) species of Ant? You’d have thought, like, 5 or 6 is plenty. Why did he make parasitical worms that enter the human body via infected water, and cause blindness? Why those things that live at the bottom of the ocean, that are just floating bladders of gas? Was he running out of ideas, or just in a bit of a rush when he made those?
Why did he give us an appendix when it doesn’t do anything? (But does have an explanation as a vestigial organ)
Why did he make Venus, and then just leave it as a big ball of rock, hot enough to melt lead, that not so much as a microbe can live on?
Why the countless billions of stars, in countess galaxies?
If he made the Earth for us to live on, why is 2\3rds of it water, when we can not live or breathe in water?
Any why do I get a funny feeling that when you really take a good, hard look at everything, there simply is no evidence that he exists or has ever existed, but there is a mountain of evidence supporting alternative theories for everything it is claimed he created?
Why do we share 94-99% of our DNA with Chimps? Why have we even got DNA? If we are, in effect, beings that were created (I believe the enlightened view is that men were made from dust and women from a mans rib... sounds great), why do our systems make any sense? Blood circulation, taking in oxygen, liquid water required for life… if God made us, why do we need to make sense? Why does there have to be an explanation of how we are able to live and breathe?
An omnipotent magical being created us, and yet, everything he did we just happen to be able to explain, without the need of the aforementioned omnipotent being.
Do you ever think about these things? And if so, can I have the answers please, and if you haven’t got the answers (:D) then your own thoughts on the matter are more than welcome.
Many thanks.
